Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-12-21

SWics Hci cAquiSiIc ldCc, WAS YET Oent
full upon mine.
took out half a crown, and, giving
IT TO her. held out my hand.
'Speak it, Judith" said. "Read
me my future, for 1t is very dark to
me, and 1 would know it,
She followed the lines of life and
death, doom and fate. Her look grew
grave. and she fingered over her tash
with certain troubled aspect which
Interested me. --....
stranger" she murmured, for l see
myself mixed In this tangle Of destiny.
There is trouble; there is peril; there is
much of evil menacel And vet.
stranger, 1 see 1t writ here-aye, as
plain as the stars are written down in
the sky-that the Romany girl will
meet the Busnee again and help him in
the moment when life and fate and all
his future are quivering in the balancel'
$50 be 1t, Judith, murmured; $50
be 1t. Come what may, only let me
meet with thee againl'
81 see trouble and reverSes, and sor-
row like to beart-break; see clouds
and darkness, pillows and tropic
storms, and far land; 1 see a new
home, the dawn of another day; and
yet-oh master of the seal and reader
of the dark secretI-I see myself there
-therer'
"Where, Judith-whereP" 1 cried
impatiently.
''HushI" she said; 81 may say no
morel They call me! Hope, work
aud waitl The years are as full of
promise as the fields of revelations; but
1t is not the Zingari that can read It'll
FarewellI''
And lifting my hand, as if In hon.
age, to her lips, she bounded off like a
doe, and left me amazed, troubled, en-
raptured.
Did 1 read her half-hidden revela-
tion truly? We shall see.
A week after l was in a vessel going
to seek home and sources of living
here exhausted and hopeless in Aus
tralia.
A year after 1 was in the heart of far
Australian wilds, working like man.
My heart was light; hope was before
me; success certain.
AT home all had been loss, decay,
ruin-my father dead. my mother and
sisters portionless. Fate pointed cut
TO me that beyond the heaving ocean
my new world lay. 1t was dawning
upon me at last.
Then came reverses, illness, sickness
next to death. i was all but ruined
well-nigh dead.
One day wounded bushranger came
crawling to my door. L sheltered,
fed, protected him, and at last recog-
nized the gypsy whose look so mem
aced me. He was Of the Cooper family
and had to fly the country.
He became my laborer, my faithful
right-hand man-true as steel TO me; /;
he would never leave me more.
judith will come" he said, signifi-
cantly.
'But Judith-whsre IS Judith" my
yearning heart cried. Patience, pa
tiencel" l said. "We shall meet; it is
decreed we shall meet; but howl"
L was at Port Philip once, seeking
for some laborers to hire, for my farm
had increased, my stores multiplied,
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vessel had lately landed there a rem
nant OF emigrants, who, stricken down
by plague, lay helpless on the beach, in
canvas tents, and praying for death,
from the tardy help the frightened
people dared scarcely bring them.
Tottering TO meet me came wan,
worn figure, with the rich olive of her
wasted face almost faded, but the eyes
were like glowing opals. l knew her
at once.
''Judithl' 1 cried aloud.
sit is bel" she half shrieked, and
tainted IN my arms.